We explore behind the brand and find out how people define themselves, get noticed and build meaningful connection in business and life. In each episode, our guests share the values that direct their life and inspire their successful ventures as well as their personal challenges and goals.
Join coach and athlete James Owen Roberts and I, as we chat about all sorts of mastery, resilience, mindset and success factors. With a career that spans sport and business, there is a tonne of insight to help you adapt your performance to achieve your best.
Join us as we talk about topping up your mental reserves, how to cope with adversity and how to continually top up your pot to deal with life's various challenges.
We explore the importance of giving focused attention to, and building trust with people and not paying lip-service to wellbeing. Adele shares her creative approach to education including using the JANICE model. We chat about human to human, how kindness is strength, knowledge is not power and the wonder and excitement of TEDxSouthampton.
Learn about Rosie's approach to task-mastery and her need to build expertise as we talk about the redundant marketing tactics, having a family approach in business and top tips that will help you with your social media marketing.
Wowza, Steve and I got deep and meaningful in our podcast, and a chat about brand quickly focused on the negative and positive drivers we have, being compelled to do a good job and the culture of organisations who really capture and grow their talent. Much more than brand, this chat was about overcoming, embracing and doing the next right thing. Thanks Disney!
Kate and I took a deep dive on this episode and had a right old chinwag about female empowerment vs male support and how your brand values are probably driven by your earliest experiences. We talked time - the only resource you can't get back... Scary. We also talked brand Cherry Blossom and the meaning and uniqueness of this magical symbol.
A great conversation today as we talk about taking the leap of faith, being fearless and having the grit and determination to not only develop yourself but lift others along the way. We discuss the importance of taking responsibility to improve the reputation of your industry and how doing the right thing personally and in business is always the right move, even when it is against all odds.
In this fast-paced, upbeat talk we talk about positivity, even through loss. The moment of realisation when you recognise you need to make a change and how fun and positivity can be a real driving force to make better life and career choices, becoming more confident.
Mark and I talk about how to find your purpose and the importance of finding experiences to prepare for your future. We discuss pride and how this relates across life, both personally and professionally as well as the need to fully understand your client's needs, listening, building rapport and finding solutions. Also find out more about Eight Wealth Health, a way to be mindful about your wealth and financial health, like other aspects of wellbeing.
Jamie has scaled and sold 2 businesses and his marketing agency has generated customers for clients in over 150 different industries in just the last 6 years. His virtual team spans the UK, USA, America, Canada and the Philippines. We talk about learning everything first-hand and how process, persistence and logic can focus the mind and create significant growth and revenue. We discuss pretending things are on fire and that not focusing on the good can be a useful skill to help you stay agile. Learn more about how to lean into the hard, pursue the obstacles and make your life easy in this fascinating episode.
Ex-athlete Adie Saunders learned practice and techniques to overcome challenges through sport and applied them to her career before becoming a coach. She focuses on how to bring the best out of people with public speaking and confidence trainer. We chat about being prepared, good bad feedback and that confidence has no competition. The power that comes with knowing when you have got it!
Nadia Finer, founder of Shy and Mighty is on a softly spoken mission to help shy people shine. With a view that the world can be a noisy place, we look at different voices and perspectives and reframe shyness as a superpower. We also explore self-awareness, self-development and self-acceptance, discuss purpose and how to find your calling,with a nice mix of soft and strength to boot.
Joanne Lockwood of SEE Change Happen reinvented herself a few years ago, transitioning in both her gender and her career. She now helps organisations become more inclusive and diverse. Our focus is broad today, from pivoting in business and utilising technology to discovering the strength inside you. We discuss education, advocacy vs activism and “starting with yes.” Jo believes in authentic passion, vision and values, the concept of paying it forward and that we don't lose anything but gain more if we are inclusive. A really fascinating chat with lots of edges and angles.
Bruce King is recognised internationally as a leading sales, marketing and personal growth strategist and has addressed audiences and coached companies' sales teams and managers in 23 countries. Bruce is a highly sought-after keynote conference speaker, sales and marketing master class presenter, sales coach, business adviser and executive coach. Bruce developed a unique sales training concept and has been named the King of Sales. What is clear is his passion for people and their needs. We talk about visualisation, letting your clients lead your development and how to simplify sales processes to make them fool-proof.
Roni Edwards, founder of Pamodzi facilitates creative collaborations. This brand embraces challenge and awareness and seeks to give people a place, space and platform to liberate others and discuss injustice. With a passion for being present and celebrating others, Roni focuses on collaboration, happiness, gratefulness and manifestation, helping others to climb the wall and help others in return. I really did have to go to the beach after this chat because so much of our discussion really moved me.
Today we are joined by Aaron Chase of Stag Productions. Marketeer, videographer and brand storyteller. Backing yourself, overcoming personal difficulties and striving to do more and do better is the theme of our chat. With a company that gives back to charity Chase believes in collaboration over association and combines his technical skills to enable other tell stories. With a big focus on honesty and understanding different people's truths, we get techy talking about client focused projects and how to combine brand identity with client projects.
Former CEO of Business South, current UK market lead for Note Take Express and CEO of Launch International. It is no hidden fact that Sally is one of my favourite people on the planet, her bigger-picture mindset and her ability to connect projects and people is just breath-taking. I like to think of her as a business prophet. Sally philosophises about hard work, co-ompetition and value, taking us on a journey of recognising others and appreciating that the sum of the parts is where the power lies.
What a fascinating person with an incredible career. Join Julia Fry, Communications Manager for Extreme E which specialises in electric vehicle racing. She has also worked for the Olympics, Wimbledon, London and New York Marathon and Clipper round the world yacht race. Julia's brand and ethos is simple though.... Being a good human. Her personal story focuses the mind on what being a good human means and how we can establish resilience, be more self-aware and not focus on "luck" as a means to diminish our hard work. Please forgive some tinny, footsteps and people making tea. We were hauled up in a busy London office. Enjoy!
I caught up with Marilyn Devonish of Tranceformation in a busy BFI cafe in London (excuse some noise) to chat through her brand and journey. We talk about how to be limitless, committing to your course and the importance of starting what you finish. Offering training, consultancy and coaching that is committed to improving and transforming the performance of individuals and organisations, Marilyn shares some of her own adversity and how she herself transitioned her life into a career and brand she loves. Find out more here, https://www.tranceformationstm.com/
Lauren is a champion of others who likes to challenge and offer a unique way of doing things. She offers networking and membership subscription but with her own twist. Her brand is clear, passionate and bold and does not subscribe to the "norm."Find out more below and by visiting, https://www.ldvhub.com/ LDV was created in January 2019 by LDV herself (Lauren de Vries), on a mission to challenge business 'shoulds' and making self-awareness more of the norm. With the never-ending highlights reel on social media, more and more people wanting to follow entrepreneurship, and a tonne of information available via the web, it becomes an overwhelming and pressured experience for most. LDV believes that self-awareness must come first, in order to create the lifestyle your desire, then followed by the things to make that happen, i.e. starting your own business. (Because running your own business isn't for everyone) LDV is a place for businesses to explore, create, learn, build and grow. A place of discovery, personal development, self-awareness and experience. A place of non-judgement, acceptance, reality and the possible.
Carly-Ann's business has encouraged hundreds of members to join this fast-growing, yet authentic movement. With openness, sass and boldness at its core this brand really empowers others. From the conversation with Carly-Ann you can really feel strength of this cause and how her own passion has been the driving force. Visit: http://neptunegirls.co.uk/ to find out more. We chat about... Being sassy Past trauma Mental health Empowerment Psychology And so much more!
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